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| Table 2. Incidence of breastfeeding in Singapore past one month, since 1951. | | Source | Year | High Income Mothers (%) | Low Income Mothers (%) |
| | Wong | 1951 | 45 | 77 | (3 mths) | | Wong | 1960 | 16 | 42 | (3 mths) | | Wong | 1971 | 4 | 5 | (3 mths) | | Chen | 1980 | - | 1 | (2 mths) | | Chua, et al | 1985 | 39 | - | (6 wks) | | KKWCH | 1990 | 2** | (6 wks) | | KKWCH | 1997 | 6.3** | (4 mths) |
| ** KK Hospital's overall figures. The figure 2% feeding at 6 weeks was the baseline study done in 1990 before KK started on it's promotion programme. The 6.3% mothers found still feeding in 1997 at 4 months is a vast improvement from the 1990 situation. It is, however, obviously still a very pathetic figure. |
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